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Cataloging

Title and description	Length
Get started with WorldShare Record Manager This video is intended to help you get started using WorldShare Record Manager for searching WorldCat and for performing basic copy cataloging tasks such as editing records, setting holdings, and exporting records. You will also learn where you can find additional training and documentation on Record Manager. After completing this video, please take a moment to complete the evaluation. Thank you!	20:05
Searching WorldCat: Basic searching This video shows how to perform a basic search in WorldShare Record Manager. After completing this video, please take a moment to complete the evaluation. Thank you!	7:39
Searching WorldCat: Advanced searching This video shows how to perform an advanced search, using multiple indexes and qualifiers in WorldShare Record Manager. After completing this video, please take a moment to complete the evaluation. Thank you!	9:51
Searching WorldCat: Expert searching This video shows how to perform an expert search in WorldShare Record Manager. It also briefly discusses how to get help constructing a search by using Searching WorldCat Indexes. After completing this video, please take a moment to complete the evaluation. Thank you!	10:38
Edit WorldCat bibliographic records This course covers the basics of editing bibliographic records in WorldShare® Record Manager, in addition to using the online save file, setting holdings, and exporting bibliographic records. Intended audience: This course is intended for original and copy catalogers at OCLC member libraries who will be using WorldShare Record Manager.	80:41	View a recorded session Transcript Presentation slides Learner guide After completing this course, please take a moment to complete the evaluation. Thank you!
Edit bibliographic data This video demonstrates how to edit bibliographic data in a WorldCat record, and how to access MARC field help in WorldShare Record Manager. It also briefly discusses final actions you might take after editing a record. After completing this video, please take a moment to complete the evaluation. Thank you!	10:28
Create a new WorldCat bibliographic record This course covers how to create a new WorldCat bibliographic record. This course does not cover cataloging rules (AACR2 or RDA) for creating new bibliographic records. Intended audience: This course is intended for catalogers at OCLC member libraries who will be using WorldShare Record Manager to create new WorldCat records.	1:27:00	View a recorded session Presentation slides Learner guide After completing this course, please take a moment to complete the evaluation. Thank you!
Field strings, text strings and constant data This video discusses and demonstrates how to create and apply field strings, text strings and bibliographic constant data in WorldShare Record Manager. After completing this video, please take a moment to complete the evaluation. Thank you!	13:44
Creating labels This video shows how to create labels in WorldShare Record Manager. It includes steps to create label templates and to add items to a label print list. After completing this video, please take a moment to complete the evaluation. Thank you!	10:44
Local bibliographic data This video explains the purpose of local bibliographic data (LBD), and demonstrates how to create and edit LBD in WorldShare Record Manager, and view it in your institution's WorldCat Discovery. After completing this video, please take a moment to complete the evaluation. Thank you!	4:16
Control headings This video shows you how to use WorldShare Record Manager to control headings. Controlling headings links name, series, and subject headings in bibliographic records to matching authority records, if available. If the authority record changes, the linked heading in the WorldCat record is updated automatically. After completing this video, please take a moment to complete the evaluation. Thank you!	10:20
Original cataloging This video covers the mechanics of using WorldShare Record Manager to add original bibliographic records to WorldCat, including deriving a new record from an existing record and creating a record from a MARC workform. After completing this video, please take a moment to complete the evaluation. Thank you!	7:02
Replacing WorldCat bibliographic records This seven-minute video explains the Replace action using Connexion client or WorldShare Record Manager to save your edits to a WorldCat bibliographic record. It also covers when to use replace, and which fields in which WorldCat records you can edit and replace. After completing this video, please take a moment to complete the evaluation. Thank you!	7:15
Ordering when there is no WorldCat record (for WMS libraries) This video shows how to create a brief level record for ordering when no WorldCat record exists. After completing this video, please take a moment to complete the evaluation. Thank you!	13:07
MARC bibliographic basics This video is a very brief introduction to the MARC Bibliographic Format – just enough to help you determine which WorldCat records match the item you are cataloging, and help you select the appropriate record. After completing this video, please take a moment to complete the evaluation. Thank you!	6:10
WorldCat records (for WMS libraries) This self-paced tutorial is for catalogers and other technical services staff in libraries using WorldShare Acquisitions and Circulation in conjunction with WorldShare Record Manager and WorldCat Discovery. You will learn about WorldCat records and associated concepts.		Access self-paced course After completing the course, please take a few moments to complete this brief survey.
MARC authority records This video discusses the basic structure and purposes of MARC authority records. After completing this video, please take a moment to complete the evaluation. Thank you!	14:43
Authority control This course provides the basic skills needed to work with authority records in WorldShare Record Manager. At the end of this course, learners will be able to find detailed help on the available authority files in Record Manager; set user preferences for authority records; search and browse the Library of Congress (LC) authority file; use the LC Root/Expanded browse to find authority records having subdivisions; explain the purpose of control headings; control headings in bibliographic records; and export authority records. Intended audience: This course is intended for original catalogers as well as copy catalogers and other staff responsible for authority control at OCLC member libraries using WorldShare Record Manager. This course is not intended for NACO libraries creating / editing authority records.		View a recorded session Note: This recording contains chapters and transcripts. Click a chapter name to navigate to a specific topic in the recording. Chapter names and transcripts are only available when viewing the recording from your computer. Presentation slides Learner guide After completing this course, please take a moment to complete the evaluation. Thank you!

Local holdings records

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Create and edit local holdings records for single part monographs in text view This video shows how to create local holdings records for single part monographs in text view in WorldShare Record Manager. After completing this video, please take a moment to complete the evaluation. Thank you!	4:51
Create and edit local holdings records for multi-part monographs in text view This video shows how to create and edit local holdings records for multi-part monographs in text view. After completing this video, please take a moment to complete the evaluation. Thank you!	8:19
Create and edit local holdings records for serials in text view This video shows how to create and edit local holdings records for serials in text view in WorldShare Record Manager. After completing this video, please take a moment to complete the evaluation. Thank you!	7:48
Create and edit local holdings records for single part monographs in MARC21 This video shows how to create and edit local holdings records for single part monographs in MARC21 in WorldShare Record Manager. After completing this video, please take a moment to complete the evaluation. Thank you!	7:39
Create and edit local holdings records for multi-part monographs in MARC21 This video shows how to create and edit local holdings records for multi-part monographs in MARC 21 in WorldShare Record Manager. After completing this video, please take a moment to complete the evaluation. Thank you!	11:28
Create and edit local holdings records for serials in MARC21 This video shows how to create and edit local holdings records for serials in MARC21 in WorldShare Record Manager. After completing this video, please take a moment to complete the evaluation. Thank you!	14:06
Local holdings records for WMS libraries This video discusses standards and best practices for creating Local Holdings Records (LHRs) for WMS (WorldShare Management Services) libraries. This video will explain the MARC fields in LHRs which should be useful when editing LHRs created in Text view or MARC21 view. Also included is a discussion of coded pairs vs. textual holdings, and creating and editing summary statements for serials. After completing this video, please take a moment to complete the evaluation. Thank you!	28:37
Using record work lists to edit local holdings records This video demonstrates how to use the record work lists in WorldShare Record Manager to edit large numbers of local holdings records. After completing this video, please take a moment to complete the evaluation. Thank you!	21:07
Edit Shared Print commitment This video demonstrates how to work with local holdings records with Shared Print commitment in WorldShare Record Manager. After completing this video, please take a moment to complete the evaluation. Thank you!	7:18

NACO functionality

Title and description	Length
Record Manager NACO functionality This video provides a brief overview that covers setting preferences in Record Manager to work with authority records.	5:20

Simplified cataloging interface

Title and description	Length
Simplified cataloging In this course, you will learn how to use the Record Manager simplified cataloging interface to match WorldCat records to items you are cataloging, set holdings and export records, download records from an export list, and optionally, add local data to records before exporting. For additional information about simplified cataloging, see these videos: Simplified cataloging: Search WorldCat, Simplified cataloging: Labels, and Simplified cataloging: User preferences. Intended audience: This course is intended primarily for staff at libraries transitioning from the CatExpress user interface in Connexion browser, which was discontinued on April 30, 2024. Libraries with full cataloging subscriptions: This training session is about the Record Manager simplified cataloging interface, which is the replacement for the CatExpress user interface in Connexion browser. To access simplified cataloging menus and options demonstrated in this training session, a user name must have a simplified or basic role and no other Cataloging roles. The simplified or basic roles can be assigned to any staff member in your library. This session will not cover using the “Cataloging Full” role in Record Manager to edit, create, or replace WorldCat bibliographic records or to work with authority records. For training on these topics, see WorldShare Record Manager training by topic.	1:03:00	View a recorded session Note: This recording contains chapters and transcripts. Click a chapter name to navigate to a specific topic in the recording. Chapter names and transcripts are only available when viewing the recording from your computer. Transcript Presentation slides Learner guide
Simplified cataloging: Search WorldCat In this video, you'll learn about searching WorldCat using the simplified cataloging interface in WorldShare Record Manager. After watching the video, you'll be able to search WorldCat using standard numbers such as ISBN, keywords such as title or author, and advanced searches such as title phrase. You'll also be able to switch between condensed and enhanced views of search results.	22:58
Simplified cataloging: Labels This video demonstrates using the simplified cataloging interface to create a label template and a label print list, send records to the label print list, edit labels as needed, print labels, and delete labels after printing.	7:02
Simplified cataloging: User preferences This video demonstrates how to set user preferences in the simplified cataloging interface for export format, basic and advanced searching, and MARC or text view of records.	6:59